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Nelsinho "Crashgate" Piquet confirms move to NASCAR

Crashing is a big deal in Formula One. Especially, as the ongoing legal battle between the FIA and one Flavio Briatore shows, if you've done it on purpose. So Nelson Piquet Jr. couldn't have been all that surprised that, after having done exactly that and then gone on to blow the whistle on his own team, he hasn't found a new ride in F1. So... where does a disenfranchised grand prix driver to go for a fresh start? Where do they love crashing more than anywhere else? Why, NASCAR, of course!

Although Piquet hasn't confirmed exactly which series he'll be joining, he has specified that it will be a NASCAR series (meaning Camping World Truck Series, Nationwide Series or Sprint Cup), and that he's fully prepared to start at the ground level and work his way up. So while he may skip the lower levels like ARCA, the smart money's on a truck debut for Piquet: Sources anticipate he could be behind the wheel as early as next month at Daytona.

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Anonymous

5 Years Ago

Are you trying to make fun of sponors in nascar like F1 has not sold it self out yet.

Ever here of Vodafone Mercedes McLaren? Thats the team name. How about AT&T Willams or Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro? Just a couple of cars that will be racing in the first race this season the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix.

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Anonymous

5 Years Ago

wow so clearly you guys despise nascar and spit on it like it isn't a auto-sport well way too be ignorant. maybe you should tell that too the 150,000 fans that go to a race each week on average(and that's just a conservative number) along with the millions watching it on t.v.

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Anonymous

5 Years Ago

Nelson Piquet, Jr is a disgrace to all forms of racing. As downright stupid as it was for Briatore to order the crash, Piquet was far stupider for actually doing it. He does not deserve a second chance in ANY series. I'm no NASCAR fans, but if he lands a Truck ride I'll buy tickets AND pit passes for the closest race to me and see to it that a friend of mine gets me on video spitting in his face. And I'm dead serious - if I can afford to make this happen(it will be behind the Grand-Am, ALMS, and IRL races on Mid-Ohio on my financial priorities when it comes to races I shall attend), I WILL do it. Nelson Piquet, Jr deserves only our hatred for what he did.